The IESG has received a request from the Interactive Connectivity Establishment WG (ice) to consider the following document: - 'Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal' <draft-ietf-ice-rfc5245bis-16.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2018-01-26. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes a protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal for UDP-based communication. This protocol is called Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE). ICE makes use of the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) protocol and its extension, Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN). This document obsoletes RFC 5245. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ice-rfc5245bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ice-rfc5245bis/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/3115/ The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc6928: Increasing TCP's Initial Window (Experimental - IETF stream)